I end with a comparison to some previous approaches and a tentative extension of parts of the analysis to other constructions. Some empirical and theoretical extensions of the analyses are proposed and some consequences discussed. In this paper i explore the distribution of welch and welche in different types of speech acts. Exclamations introduced by one of these words consist either of. This chapter is devoted to major theoretical questions surrounding nonassertion speech acts. Villalba 2003 considers the case of spanish hidden exclamatives see masullo, 1999, like. Approaching the pragmatics of exclamations experimentally. Exclamations are a different kind of speech act with a correspondingly dif ferent illocutionary force. It establishes distinctions among three groups of whexclamatives. Mirativity across constructions and theories m itshide. First is addressed the distinction between institutional and noninstitutional speech acts. And furthermore we will argue that 1 is not just pragmatically equivalent to 2.
In my account of these facts, i propose a characterization of illocutionary force of exclamation, a function from propositions to speech acts of exclamation. Exclamatives, degrees and speech acts exclamatives, degrees and speech acts rett, jessica 20120223 00. Pdf exclamatives, exclamations and speakers meaning. The goal of this paper is an account of the semantics and pragmatics of. Speech acts 4 general felicity conditions participants understand language, dont act like actors or lie. We will argue that the noun phrase is not embedded in an elliptical structure. Finally, chernilovskaya and nouwen to appear point out that this is not the case for dutch. A degree account of exclamatives salt 18, march 21, 2008 jessica rett jessica. Each of these classes of speech acts raise specific issues, which are separately discussed. The derivation of vocative exclamatives with the particle. Exclamatives are used to introduce an exclamation of surprise, admiration, or a similar emotion.
What is the relationship between speech act type and linguistic form. Speech acts and conversation university of pennsylvania. The goal of this paper is a semantic and pragmatic account of exclamations. It is common to label as exclamations both sentences of a. Both speech acts show informationstructural effects of givenness marking, but the effects in exclamatives are remarkably weak.
Whexclamatives and other noninterrogative questions matrix whexclamatives henceforth es are clauses like 1 example 1b is in dutch be. She focuses on the computational models and on the methods used to detect the users surprise through language and speech processing. Pdf on sep 16, 2016, christoph unger and others published. There exists an exclamative speech act with the following features or. It is proposed that the speechact marking prosody overrides informationstructural effects to some extent.
Male and female speakers show differences in their preferred accent patterns for the two speech acts. Exploring the exclamative speech act from a discourse perspective. The hypothesis of insubordination and three types of wh. Exclamatives, degrees and speech acts researchgate. The difference in meaning between sentence exclamations and exclamatives has consequences for the type of violated expectation. These are also referred to as exclamative sentences or exclamatives. No direct mapping between clausetypes and speech acts this is a wellknown general fact 2. Exclamative sentence can begin with what or how for example. Exclamatives learning english grammar collins education. Exclamatives are an a ective speech act, and it was considered a key property that their descriptive and expressive contents always involve a gradable notion. Degree modification in natural language by jessica rett a dissertation submitted to the graduate schoolnew brunswick rutgers, the state university of new jersey in partial ful. Exclamatives, degrees and speech acts semantics archive. A successful account of the discourse behavior of exclamatives based on a proposed dynamic e. Speech acts, clausetypes and logical forms the ingredients of the puzzle.
Spanish root exclamatives at the syntaxsemantics interface. These are used to express strong feelings, strong emphasis or emotion. In order to improve the naturalness of humancomputer interaction, socioemotional components need to be integrated. Exclamative as a universal speech act category a case study in. Pdf hosted at the radboud repository of the radboud university nijmegen. Then, directives, questions, expressives, and commissives are discussed in turn. Different types of speech acts are linked fairly directly with different linguistic forms. Exclamatives, degrees and speech acts jessica rett december, 2011 abstract the goal of this paper is an account of the semantics and pragmatics of exclamation. Doctoral dissertation, university of maryland, college park. No direct mapping between clausetype and logical form inversion exclamatives, whexclamatives, nominal exclamatives seem to exhibit the very same degree interpretation 3. Exclamatives, degrees and speech acts, linguistics and. Exclamative definition and meaning collins english. The discourse perspective taken in this dissertation suggests new directions for analysing various speech acts.
The prosody of whexclamatives and whquestions in german. In my account of these facts, i propose a characterization of illocutionary force of exclamation, a function from propositions to speech acts of. For instance 4 repeated from 1, when uttered with emphasis. Mirativity across constructions and theories jessica rett, ucla. Uninflected welch has been claimed to occur only in exclamatives. Pdf the derivation of vocative exclamatives with the. The place of exclamatives and miratives in grammar a functional discourse grammar view revista linguistica 8 1, 7698. It investigates word order in matrix whexclamatives and their subordinate correlates and tests matrixsubordinate asymmetry the felicitousness of whwords in matrix and subordinate contexts. The semantics of nominal exclamatives semantic scholar. Inflected and uninflected welch in exclamatives and rhetorical questions. Exploring the exclamative speech act from a discourse.
We need to acknowledge that there are a variety of speech acts e. Available formats pdf please select a format to send. They also recognise exclamations in which the emphatic degree items so and such. Nouwen and chernilovskaya 2015 is an intensi er of the gradable adjective cool see rett 2015, on degrees within exclamatives and that 2 wie how can. Definition of exclamative from the collins english dictionary. Speech act theory austin 1962, searle 1979, geis 1995 has not helped to refine our understanding of the exclamative type, since expressive speech acts, with the exception of formalized locutions like apologies, are not readily analyzed with regard to preparatory, essential and sincerity conditions. But now there is enough crosslinguistic evidence to shows that whexclamatives are of. Prices in gbp apply to orders placed in great britain only. Consequently, exclamatives too, according to my view, combine the two speech acts of assertion 20 and exclamation 21. Exclamatives, degrees and speech acts linguistics and philosophy 34, 411442. English easy learning grammar exclamatives exclamatives are used to introduce an exclamation of surprise, admiration. Exclamatives are expressive speech acts that typically are communicated in a context that. The sentencefinal use can be viewed as strengthening the action performed by the sentence. A formal semantics is given by making use of dynamic techniques and, in a sense, dynamically simulating the modification of certain speech acts.
This paper provides evidence for evans 2007 insubordination hypothesis w. The most direct kind of evidence emerges from the interpretation of the exclamatives in 1. The polarity item question particle oo in matrix clauses. In the third section, i will present new data on the scope interactions holding in spanish degree exclamatives, which suggest that degree operators must. Pdf in this article, we examine the scope interactions of the extreme degree operator underlying exclamatives.
The difference in meaning between sentence exclamations and exclamatives has consequences for the type of. Having described various kinds of syntactic structures and what they mean we see that people often dont seem to say what. Exclamatives in early english dialogues daniela schroeder 1 1university of hamburg institute for british and american studies vonmellepark 6 20146 hamburg, germany abstract exclamative is a term that covers a range of syntactic constructions which all semanti. Exclamatives, degrees and speech acts springerlink. Exclamatives are expressive speech acts that typically are communicated in a. Research into vocative exclamatives voces is based on the traditional grammar of standard arabic sa which considers the structure of voces to be like that of vocatives due to the use of the vocative particle ya. In this paper several aspects of the syntax and semantics of spanish root exclamatives are ana. Whexclamatives and other noninterrogative questions.